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Got her back! Texas walnut. I am pleased with the stock maker's work.

Merry Christmas Y'all !!!!!!!!!

PS. Any suggestions on where I should look for a 99 in 375 Winchester?

That looks great! Nice work.

Thanks!! Fit and finish are amazing!!

Give the guy a plug and if you don't mind me asking, can you give us a price range for this type of work? Even a ballpark would be helpful.

Would you mind posting the price to do each part of the restock? Looks like the guy knows his trade. What wood did he start with?

Absolutely!!!! The stock maker is Robert Schuck - tel: 979.480.4326 He is a very nice guy and a real craftsman.

Robert lives near Weimer, Texas I specifically requested that the new stock be made from Texas Walnut. Robert found a fellow that had some Texas Walnut and used my original stock as a guide. Turnaround was surprisingly quick - around three months. He charged me $725 for the new stock finished and fitted (including a butt plate) and refinishing the forearm to match the stock.

Here are a couple more pics.

ditto on Gunstocks inc.

That rifle sure looks good.

Lee

Thanks!

Nice!

Sweet rifle, now go shoot a Buck with it!

Beauty!

Thanks everyone. I'm taking it to the range today. :-)

Really nice!

As the Alka Seltzer man used to say, "That's a spicy meatball." Seriously nice work and ditto on the Super Sporters!

I took her to the range yesterday and discovered some problems. :-(

The bolt will not fully retract. It needs to go back another 1/16th of an inch or so cycle a round. It cycled fine before the new stock was installed.

Is it feasible that the stock maker didn't leave enough room inside the stock for the bolt to fully travel rearward or is the timing of this problem coincidence?

Also, I getting split brass. That too is a new problem. I suppose that could be associated with improper indexing of the barrel. (It's a takedown model). The stock maker does beautiful work but he may not be familiar with the savage 99.

Your thoughts?

Entirely possible for wood to interfere with rearward bolt travel.

Brass split where? Pics?

gnoahhh, the brass split on two of five rounds fired. Split occurs at the shoulder. The ammo is old S&B 117 gr. SPs provided by the guy that sold me the rifle.

Thank you for your guidance!!!

As Mr. gnoahhh said. You may need to do a little more relieving inside the stock in the areas where the bolt and lever move during cocking. My hunch is that your problem is in there and that it's probably not a lot of wood causing the problem.

Yup, that's my guess too. I'm reluctant to pull that new stock off. I may have to drive it back to the stock maker. That way, if anything cracks he can fix it.

I've pulled stocks on my other 99s plenty of times without incident but, after paying $725 for this stock, I think I need to let the stock maker get it right.

Thanks for your input! It is highly valued.